Quotes by Sontag, Susan

The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - >>

Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a >>

Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which huma >>

Quotations about Sexuality

The American ideal of sexuality appears to be rooted in the American i >>

Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it >>

There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There >>

Tamed as it may be, sexuality remains one of the demonic forces in human consciousness -- pushing us at intervals close to taboo and dangerous desires, which range from the impulse to commit sudden arbitrary violence upon another person to the voluptuous yearning for the extinction of one's consciousness, for death itself. Even on the level of simple physical sensation and mood, making love surely resembles having an epileptic fit at least as much as, if not more than, it does eating a meal or conversing with someone.

Sontag, Susan